Derek Hanson

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Derek Hanson
Derek Hanson
@derek

I build blocks, plugins, and themes with WordPress and write about what I learn. This is my blog on the Fediverse; reply here and it shows up as a comment on the post. Personal account: @derekahanson.

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  • The GPT and Claude desktop apps are so good and keep getting better that it is hard to imagine leaving them. Yet, I am drawn more and more to bb the more I read about it. The IDE that grows with you is the IDE I’ve been dreaming about. From…

  • https://agentskills.io/home Just came across this in my rabbit hole of agentic IDEs and harnesses. One of the better explanations of skills. Might be a good resource.

  • https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/10/23/wordpress-contributor-toolkit-2-0-a-redesigned-app-in-your-language/ Setup has always been a challenging part of contributing to WordPress. As a non-developer, this was definitely a blocker to me. Ryan Welcher and team released version 2.0 of the WordPress contributor toolkit. I’ve pieced some of this together on my own with Claude before, but having it all…

  • @pfefferle This is awesome. Matthias, you’ve been really amazing at bringing ActivityPub and the Fediverse to WordPress and moving it forward. I’m excited that I’ve started to do more work in this space, which you can see here on my blog. I want to see more and more people take…

  • https://twitter.com/thesamparr/status/2112939576746733633 This is exactly why I’m using WordPress more and more daily and how I’m using it differently. Themes were the business when you couldn’t build websites on your own. The new business for WordPress will (is) different. I’m talking a lot about orchestration now. Helping people learn how to…

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